Teaching Responsibility Teaching Responsibility. Part of the series: Writing and Education. Teaching responsibility to a child requires modeling respectful behavior, taking responsibility for your own actions, and talking about the consequences of behaving irresponsibly.Author(s): No creator set

So far we have mostly emphasized the way in which different environmental factors may affect body weight and provide a partial explanation of both individual cases of obesity and the increase in average body weight that has been so clearly documented in both North America and Western Europe during the last two decades. There is also marked individual variability in body weight. For example, any weight between about 58 and 78 kg would be regarded as ‘desirable’ for a person of height 1.77

Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford on purpose Habitat for Humanity International CEO Jonathan Reckford joined Elon University President Leo. M. Lambert for a conversation on October 28th, 2014, about ways students can make a difference in the world through service.Author(s): No creator set

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Phases of the Moon A cat has a conversation with the moon about why it looks different sometimes. It's not very sophisticated, but it might strike a chord. The video gives a scientific explanation and gives the names for each phase. Run time 04:54.Author(s): No creator set

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Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: the politics of the UN Security Council's approach to the protecti Speaker(s): Professor Anne Marie Goetz | Editor's note: The question and answer session has been removed from this podcast. Sexual violence has been deployed strategically in a wide range of conflicts, and though long recognized as an unlawful tactic of warfare, it has only relatively recently attracted the political focus and operational responses accorded to other violations of civilian rights. This lecture will provide a history of the policy processes leading to the Security Council resolutiAuthor(s): No creator set

The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition 2008 The 14th Annual Lions Oratory Competition saw selected ANU students from across the University present eight minute orations to convince the judges and the audience that they deserved to win the ANU Lions Oratory Trophy and prizes totaling $3,000 in cash. The event was hoseted by Esther Sainsbury, last years winner of the 2007 Lions Oratory Competition and judged by an esteemed panel of public-speaking experts. The oratory saw speakers addressing a range of subjects incorporating the LAuthor(s): Creator not set

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Learn French - Les Adjectifs (Adjectives) The video uses funny images to demonstate the meaning of the French adjective. The words appear on the screen as they are pronounced. For all beginning French learners.Author(s): No creator set

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Egg Osmosis (Part Two) This student-made video is an conclusion to the egg osmosis experiment. Egg A has been sitting in corn syrup. Egg B has been sitting in water. The results will astound you... well they might at least be interesting. Other vocabulary words include: hypertonic, hypotonic, and viscosity. Run time 04:20.Author(s): No creator set

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Creative Writing Tips for Students & Teachers : How to Write a Story Plot Write a story plot by outlining a list of events that will lead to a climax, developing dynamic characters, starting at the end of the story and working towards the beginning. Create a plot, which is characterized as an arrangement of incidents, with this free video from a professional writer. (02:16)

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Lies, lies and more lies Deception in organisations can start with a few 'bad apples' but the rot often spreads much wider and deeper. New research from Dr Stelios C. Zyglidopoulos reveals how apparently good people - churchgoers in Enron's case - can gradually become corrupt, sometimes as a result of social pressures within the organisation.Author(s): No creator set

Vitamin E is not a single compound, but consists of a group of eight closely related chemicals, of which the most important, responsible for about 90% of its activity in the body is alpha-tocopherol. Since, like vitamins A and D, vitamin E is fat-soluble, it occurs in fat-rich foods. The main sources in the UK diet are from plant oils such as soya, corn and olive oil. Other good sources include nuts and seeds, and wheatgerm (the part of the wheat grain that will develop into the new plant) an

Antarctic Food Web This interactive game adapted from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences challenges players to build a food web, a complex model that shows how various food chains in an ecosystem are connected. Players must position the names of producers and consumers in the correct places in a diagram. The completed diagram reveals how energy flows through an Antarctic ecosystem and the relationships between predators and prey.Author(s): No creator set

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All about Leaves This cartoon animation is about the parts of a leaf and their functions. Key words include: food factory, veins, midrib, blade, carbon dioxide, photosynthesis, and oxygen. (02:06)Author(s): No creator set

Finally, an area that is subject to much dispute and political discussion is the whole issue of working conditions and the role of the EU. As already mentioned, the background to this is the question of the European Social Chapter. The UK has opted out of this EU initiative, which has to do with establishing common rights and conditions for working environments across the EU member states. A controversial aspect of this concerns the EU's European Works Councils Directive (see www.dti.g